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Password Attacks

Password Attack is a type of cybersecurity exploitation technique that systematically attempts to gain unauthorized access to a system or account by identifying and overcoming password-based authentication mechanisms through methods such as brute force, dictionary attacks, or credential stuffing.

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Password authentication with insecure communication

Leslie Lamport · Communications of the ACM · 1981 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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Password security

Robert Morris, Ken Thompson · Communications of the ACM · 1979 · 930 citations · Full text

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The Science of Guessing: Analyzing an Anonymized Corpus of 70 Million Passwords

Joseph Bonneau · 2012 · 687 citations

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Smudge attacks on smartphone touch screens

Adam J. Aviv, Katherine L. Gibson, Evan Mossop et al. · 2010 · 602 citations

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The state of phishing attacks

Jason Hong · Communications of the ACM · 2011 · 545 citations

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  1. CH
    Cormac Herley

    Microsoft (United States), United States

    13 publications · 993 citations

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  2. PC
    Paul C. van Oorschot

    Carleton University, Canada

    12 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. WK
    Wei‐Chi Ku

    Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

    12 publications · 502 citations

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  4. HG
    Haichang Gao

    Xidian University, China

    10 publications · 484 citations

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  5. XL
    Xiyang Liu

    Xidian University, China

    9 publications · 413 citations

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Institutions

491

  1. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    13 h-index

    23 publications

    1.7K citations

  2. Carleton University

    Ottawa, Canada

    12 h-index

    27 publications

    2.7K citations

  3. Xidian University

    Xi'an, China

    12 h-index

    46 publications

    2K citations

  4. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    11 h-index

    36 publications

    5.1K citations

  5. University of Malaya

    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    8 h-index

    16 publications

    296 citations

  6. Singapore Management University

    Singapore, Singapore

    7 h-index

    15 publications

    714 citations

  7. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    7 h-index

    20 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    586 citations

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Venues

  1. Computers & Security

    15 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. IEICE Transactions on Communications

    12 publications · 687 citations

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

    TDSC · 9 publications · 511 citations

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  5. Procedia Computer Science

    8 publications · 177 citations

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